using-specclaw SKILL.md skillB
using-specclaw from chan4lk/specclaw is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chan4lk/specclaw/using-specclaw@git:20261012.6b78134Pins git:20261012.6b78134 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chan4lk/specclaw
- Path
plugins/specclaw/skills/using-specclaw/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261012.6b78134, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 18, 2026
- Size
- 4,415 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Use when a session starts in a repo that has a .specclaw/ directory — establishes how specclaw verbs are chosen.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Using specclaw specclaw is a spec-driven change lifecycle. Every change gets a directory under `.specclaw/changes/<NNN>-<slug>/` holding its proposal, spec, tasks, errors and learnings — **that directory is the paper trail, and it only exists if the lifecycle created it.** Lifecycle: `propose → plan → build → verify → pr → archive`. ## The one hard gate: new work MUST be proposed If the user asks to add, build, create, implement, change, extend, remove or "just quickly" alter **anything in this codebase** — a feature, a flag, a file, a config value, a one-line fix — and there is even a 1% chance it is new work rather than a question, you MUST invoke `/specclaw:propose` before reading, editing or creating any source file. This is not negotiable. You cannot rationalise your way out of it. *"It's too small"*, *"I'll propose it after"*, *"they seem in a hurry"*, *"I'm just looking first"* — all of these mean STOP and invoke `/specclaw:propose`. The gate is forcing because this is the **only route with no recovery path**. A change that begins without a proposal has no change dir, and no later verb can create one retroactively: the trail is …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chan4lk/specclaw/using-specclaw@sha256:5bbe203e611ca9d6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.6b78134, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_253th47vu5a2gybv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 18, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261012.6b78134 latest | 2026-10-12 | 6b78134 | 4,415 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261011.f968269 | 2026-10-11 | f968269 | 4,245 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260918.c4abb6b | 2026-09-18 | c4abb6b | 4,231 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4415 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
chan4lk/specclaw · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_253th47vu5a2gybv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chan4lk/specclaw/using-specclaw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5bbe203e611ca9d65e3efc11d220216e84957d135a853a33a7f3007dd1405251
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.